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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 17:20:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] dmaengine: add a slave parameter to __dma_request_channel()
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> For example, the SA11x0 IrDA driver uses two virtual channels, one for
> receive and one for transmit.  The SA11x0 has a total of five DMA
> channels.  To waste two of them on IrDA when it's half-duplex is just
> silly.  Doing the whole 'request+free' thing is also silly because
> switching between tx and rx mode is timing-critical.

Oh. that's luxury! The ARM PB11MPcore has two physical DMA
channels.

If I lock one up for say continous UART RX I have only one left,
and that need to do everything else. So multiplexing the physical
engines it is a must.

Yours,
Linus Walleij